Art Terrorism, Media Manipulation, Culture Jamming call it what you will but Drummond and Cauty know how to push boundaries. During their recording career as The JAMS & The KLF they were responsible for a series of graffiti attacks on prominently positioned billboard hoarding. Often subverting the original advertisers message gave extra impact however it was not without risk and during one such attack in the shadow of Battersea power station they were apprehended and arrested.
After quitting their successful music careers Bill and jimmy declared themselves trustees of the K Foundation. Taking full page adverts in both the Music Press and some broadsheets they embarked on a series of bizarre events that would cause derision and acclaim from the art world and the wider populous.
In 1993 the K Foundation subverted the Turner Prize Awards by simultaneously awarding the winner, Rachael Whitread, their own prize of £40,000 [twice that of the Turner prize] for the worst body of work. The money was nailed to a wooden frame and secured to the railings outside the Tate. Begrudgingly Whitread accepted the award after the K foundation threatened to burn it if she did not. This would be just a taste of events to come. The K Foundation briefly intended an installation called Money - A Major Body Of Cash which entailed sums of money ranging from £10 to £1,000,000 being nailed to old skip pine. They wanted to offer the £1,000,000 piece Nailed To The Wall to the Tate as the "1995 K Foundation Bequest to the Nation" but this was later rejected on the basis that they couldn't blackmail the Tate as they had Rachael Whitread. Various other ideas were thrown in but none were satisfactory and in the end the trustees of the K Foundation were quoted as saying "Fuck it, let's just burn the million quid anyway."
On the 22nd of August 1994 Bill and Jimmy rented a light aircraft and in the company of journalist Jim Reid and Gimpo they took two suitcases to the Scottish Isle of Jura and in the early hours of the 23rd they burnt £1,000,000 in the fireplace of an abandoned boathouse. . . MORE